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The goal of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer studies is to examine and better understand the lives and representations of individuals and groups considered sexual minorities, as well as the various forces that have affected them across cultures and throughout time.

About LGBTQ Studies

Sexuality offers a critical lens to analyze communities, cultures, and subcultures; institutions, discourses, and literatures; economic and political movements; the social construction of power, status, and hierarchies; and identity categories configured on the basis of age, ability, class, ethnicity, gender, race, and religion.

Our minor course of study will allow you to gain critical understandings of normative categorization, query unspoken assumptions, examine social stratification and distributions of power, and explore the diversity of forms that sexuality has taken historically and in contemporary contexts.